I posted the first part of this series about nine months ago, and it is about time I followed up with the second and final part.

Back in 2009, an alumni member of the New Mexico Tech Industrial Archeology Club gave us a tour of the Victor and Cripple Creek Gold Mining Company. The first post (Dec 2014) was about the solution extraction plant. This post is about the rock crushing operations.

I like this sequence: this is a haul truck dumping its load into the crusher.

One of the more fascinating areas at the Nevada Northern Railway was the Repair In Place (RIP) yard. Here, cars could be repaired while sitting on the tracks. There was a long warehouse structure over the tracks that served as a shelter while repairs were being made. We were given a tour of this shop, and though the lighting was not great, I took quite a few photographs of the place.

From the shop, we could see all sorts of other things around the yard:

Inside the shop, there was some diagnostic equipment for working on cars:

There was also portable repair equipment, such as these portable air tanks:

or this portable cement mixer or portable corrugated metal machine:

We got to see inside of a caboose:

There were some journal boxes to see as well. Journal boxes lead directly to the wheel bearings. A waxy grease is placed in these boxes, and that keeps the bearings lubricated. Occasionally, however, the grease would catch on fire, and these were replaced with more modern bearing sets.

I photographed a few nameplates, but didn’t write down (or photograph) where I saw them:

One thing that really struck me was how ornate the passenger cars were decorated.